Empowerment through Microfinance: Pro Mujer Gives Women in Peru “the confidence to keep moving forward”
by Jenna Mulhall-Brereton
- USA -
Elsa Gómez Mamani sits on the ruins of a stone wall on a cold but sunny morning in a field high on the Andean altiplano. We are in southern Peru, on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Elsa wears the traditional full skirts and bowler hat of the Aymara culture, and tells me in halting Spanish about her experience with poverty and entrepreneurship.
